Neutral At Worst? The Complicated Understanding of Supplements
07/07/23 • 51 min
Supplements are all around. The general idea is that supplements are "good for us" or at least neutral. Dr. Alison Mondul walks us through why that isn't necessarily the case and how come it's so hard to get good research on them.
Dr. Mondul also discusses #MiCares , a new research project that will help us understand the world around us.
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About our Guest Host:
Alison Mondul, PhD, MSPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed her PhD in Cancer Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her MSPH at The Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and her BS in Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.
Dr. Mondul studies the role of modifiable risk factors in the etiology of cancer. In particular, she has studied how lifestyle factors and factors related to diet and nutrition, such as micronutrients and lipids, may influence prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers, as well as other genitourinary conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, and how genetic factors may contribute to or modify these associations. More recently, she has become involved in studying head and neck cancer, which is an exciting area of inquiry as it remains an understudied cancer. Dr. Mondul is a co-investigator on the new Michigan Cancer Research and the Environment (MI-CARES) Study, which began recruitment in 2022.
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Supplements are all around. The general idea is that supplements are "good for us" or at least neutral. Dr. Alison Mondul walks us through why that isn't necessarily the case and how come it's so hard to get good research on them.
Dr. Mondul also discusses #MiCares , a new research project that will help us understand the world around us.
Join Us on #theunchosenfork
Apple: https://apple.co/3uwyKPo
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3FuqPG4
About our Guest Host:
Alison Mondul, PhD, MSPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed her PhD in Cancer Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her MSPH at The Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and her BS in Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.
Dr. Mondul studies the role of modifiable risk factors in the etiology of cancer. In particular, she has studied how lifestyle factors and factors related to diet and nutrition, such as micronutrients and lipids, may influence prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers, as well as other genitourinary conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, and how genetic factors may contribute to or modify these associations. More recently, she has become involved in studying head and neck cancer, which is an exciting area of inquiry as it remains an understudied cancer. Dr. Mondul is a co-investigator on the new Michigan Cancer Research and the Environment (MI-CARES) Study, which began recruitment in 2022.
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